Jason Ryberg is the author of fourteen books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, several angry letters to various magazine and newspaper editors, and a box full of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be (loosely) construed as a novel. He is currently an artist-in-residence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community. He lives part-time in Kansas City with a rooster named Little Red and a billygoat named Giuseppe and part- time somewhere in the Ozarks, near the Gasconade River, where there are also many strange and wonderful woodland critters.